From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v5 03/21] rxrpc: Fix anonymous key handling
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 13:12:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260408121252.2249051-4-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells@redhat.com>
In rxrpc_new_client_call_for_sendmsg(), a key with no payload is meant to
be substituted for a NULL key pointer, but the variable this is done with
is subsequently not used.
Fix this by using "key" rather than "rx->key" when filling in the
connection parameters.
Note that this only affects direct use of AF_RXRPC; the kAFS filesystem
doesn't use sendmsg() directly and so bypasses the issue. Further,
AF_RXRPC passes a NULL key in if no key is set, so using an anonymous key
in that manner works. Since this hasn't been noticed to this point, it
might be better just to remove the "key" variable and the code that sets it
- and, arguably, rxrpc_init_client_call_security() would be a better place
to handle it.
Fixes: 19ffa01c9c45 ("rxrpc: Use structs to hold connection params and protocol info")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319150150.4189381-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
---
net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
index 04f9c5f2dc24..c35de4fd75e3 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ rxrpc_new_client_call_for_sendmsg(struct rxrpc_sock *rx, struct msghdr *msg,
memset(&cp, 0, sizeof(cp));
cp.local = rx->local;
cp.peer = peer;
- cp.key = rx->key;
+ cp.key = key;
cp.security_level = rx->min_sec_level;
cp.exclusive = rx->exclusive | p->exclusive;
cp.upgrade = p->upgrade;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-08 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-08 12:12 [PATCH net v5 00/21] rxrpc: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 01/21] rxrpc: Fix key quota calculation for multitoken keys David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 02/21] rxrpc: Fix key parsing memleak David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` David Howells [this message]
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 04/21] rxrpc: Fix call removal to use RCU safe deletion David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 05/21] rxrpc: Fix RxGK token loading to check bounds David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 06/21] rxrpc: Fix use of wrong skb when comparing queued RESP challenge serial David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 07/21] rxrpc: Fix rack timer warning to report unexpected mode David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 08/21] rxrpc: Fix key reference count leak from call->key David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 09/21] rxrpc: Fix to request an ack if window is limited David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 10/21] rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 11/21] rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 12/21] rxrpc: fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 13/21] rxrpc: fix oversized RESPONSE authenticator length check David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 14/21] rxrpc: fix reference count leak in rxrpc_server_keyring() David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 15/21] rxrpc: Fix key/keyring checks in setsockopt(RXRPC_SECURITY_KEY/KEYRING) David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 16/21] rxrpc: Fix missing error checks for rxkad encryption/decryption failure David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 17/21] rxrpc: Fix integer overflow in rxgk_verify_response() David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 18/21] rxrpc: Fix leak of rxgk context " David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 19/21] rxrpc: Fix buffer overread in rxgk_do_verify_authenticator() David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 20/21] rxrpc: only handle RESPONSE during service challenge David Howells
2026-04-08 12:12 ` [PATCH net v5 21/21] rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output David Howells
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